French Orientalist Literature in Algeria, 1845–1882
«Attentive to the disturbing historical traces of colonial Algeria found in French Orientalist texts, Sage Goellner makes a compelling case for a re-evaluation of these nineteenth-century narratives and their testimony to the haunting violence and trauma of French colonialism. She demonstrates skillfully how these works continue to haunt our contemporary landscape and inform the memories and relations between France and Algeria.»
Michael O'Riley, The Colorado College
This book applies the growing theoretical field of hauntology to a body of literature which has previously been examined through the lenses of Orientalism and exoticism. Through a chronological study and close readings of the writings of Théophile Gautier, Eugène Fromentin, Gustave Flaubert, and Pierre Loti, the project identifies haunting echoes within the texts which demonstrate an ambivalence of attitudes towards colonialism and which undermine any claim towards a monolithic imperialist French ideology. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781498538749
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«Attentive to the disturbing historical traces of colonial Algeria found in French Orientalist texts, Sage Goellner makes a compelling case for a re-evaluation of these nineteenth-century narratives and their testimony to the haunting violence and trauma of French colonialism. She demonstrates skillfully how these works continue to haunt our contemporary landscape and inform the memories and relations between France and Algeria.»
Michael O'Riley, The Colorado College
«Sage Goellner’s book offers a new approach to literature sometimes dismissed as ‘exoticist’ or otherwise of secondary importance: the travel writing and fiction that represented North Africa to nineteenth-century French readers.»
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